grep with spaces

[dwcasey]

Is there a grep equivalent to the following perl search/replace?

perl -pi -e 's{LTAPEDEV\s+/dev/infmx/log_tape_dev}{LTAPE /dummy}g' onconfig

Not necessarily the search/replace, but searching for something like:

LTAPEDEV /dev/infmx/log_tap_dev
LTAPEDEV /dev/infmx/log_tap_dev

So a grep where I could essentially
grep+LTAPEDEV /dev/infmx/log_tap_dev

and get either of the above regardless of spaces.

 

[columb]

egrep "LTAPEDEV[[:space+]]/dev/infmx/log_tap_dev" onconfig

egrep is the key to this.

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[PHV]

grep -E 'LTAPEDEV[[:blank:]]+/dev/infmx/log_tap_dev' onconfig

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[dwcasey]

this is on AIX...weird, I'm getting []imbalance ??

but I found that I can grep "LTAPEDEV */dev/infmx/log_tap_dev" onconfig and get the results I needed.

 

[columb]

My egrep solution was tested on AIX 5.1 ML7 and works fine. I also test PHV's solution and it worked.

Ooops! :-( There's a typo in transposition - my solution should be

egrep "LTAPEDEV[[:space:]]+/dev/infmx/log_tap_dev" onconfig

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